A youth advocate is backing how police dealt with five teens who climbed a justice facility roof over the weekend.
They sat on top of the Korowai Manaaki facility in South Auckland's Wiri on Saturday evening.
They were lured down with takeaways.
VOYCE chief executive Tracie Shipton says they weren't being rewarded with fast food.
"If that was my child and I needed to get into a conversation with them, I'd use whatever tools I had in my toolkit. There might have been other ways to do it, but they got them, and they got them talking."
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